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A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air. | A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. | A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
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The Flint Registry is extending a “thank you” offer to pay Flint residents $50 each to fill out a survey detailing their experiences during the Flint water crisis.
Ben’s father, Calvin Flint, and uncle, Armtead Flint, ran the store before him, and before those two his grandfather, Calvin E. Flint, was in charge.
Because of the historical use of flint, the word "flint" is used by some potters, especially in the US, to refer to siliceous materials that are not flint.
Comparison with ferrocerium Flint and steel used to strike sparks were superseded by ferrocerium (sometimes referred to as "flint", although not true flint, " mischmetal ", "hot spark", "metal match", or "fire steel").
The economic forum held by the UM-Flint School of Management and the Flint Rotary Club was the first in-person forum since the Covid-19 shutdowns.
The City of Flint and the State of Michigan have been quiet on the issue as they undergo legal negotiations to agree on a plan to get Flint’s water system into compliance.
Despite the tragedy of Flint’s drinking water, Hanna-Attisha remains hopeful that lessons can be drawn from the crisis and response in Flint.
In other action on Saturday night in the OHL, in Flint, Dennis Busby’s shootout goal was the difference as the Flint Firebirds beat the Guelph Storm 4-3.
The ACLU of Michigan, through its Flint Area Lawyers Committee, has learned that the City of Flint is not complying with the requirements of the Michigan Constitution as to absentee voting.
Some workers picketing outside GM's Flint truck this week remembered the UAW's 1998 strike against GM parts-making plants in Flint that lasted 54 days and cost the company US$2 billion.
Four of the actors attended UM-Flint for at least their undergraduate degrees, in fact, and several others have ties to Flint.
In 2014, Flint, Michigan, changed its source of water supply to the Flint River.
Michigan ends Flint's free bottled water programApril 7 (UPI) -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder ended the free bottled water program in Flint after testing showed the levels of lead in the city's water are below the federal limit.
Shortly after the March 4 Sunday service, Duntley-Matos met with a small group of Flint UUs who bought into her idea of a music-based transcultural engagement that would send members of the UM-Flint Jazz Combo to Puerto Rico.
Some experts have blamed legionnaires’ on Flint’s water, which was not properly treated when it was drawn from the Flint river in 2014 and 2015.
The 49th District, covering Mt. Morris and Flint townships, and parts of the City of Flint (including the East Court area) is also an open seat, with Phil Phelps being term limited.
The Michigan city of Flint has suffered a public health crisis due to above average levels of lead in its water supply after it began using the Flint River as its source of water.
The Morris Peterson Jr. Foundation, started by 11-year NBA veteran and Flint Northwestern High School alum Morris Peterson, is partnering with United Way of Genesee County, the Boys and Girls Club of Flint and Mott Community College.
Flint is often deposited around larger fossils such as Echinoidea which may be silicified (i.e. replaced molecule by molecule by flint).
Flint was the first mineral collected and used to make tools, and flint handaxes are the earliest pieces of evidence of habitation in the Nile valley.